Yes, you do get the points for phantom stays. But there are also rules about the number (15K) of LPs per reservation. This thread has a lot of details on the BAAH booking process and quirks/deals.
We've done one phantom stay so far and got the LP plus the 30% bonus (RDMs don't really matter to us, just LP, so they don't figure into our calculus).
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I account for RDMs in the calculus because you're not getting
nothing in the deal on that side of things, so there's a reduction in your net cost (presuming you have a use for the miles in question). And I'd add that with the "fancy" AA credit card (which I don't have yet), it'd add another 10 RDMs/$ to the calculus (so whacking another 5-15% off the effective cost, depending on what you were otherwise using). A situation with a hypothetical 35 LPs/$ as base earning (as some have cited) would yield 45.5 LPs/$ and 45 RDMs/$. If you did a stack of bookings (I'll figure out the nuances over in the other thread) at that rate, the scratch pad looks a bit like this for $3500:
$3500*45.5 LPs/$=159,250 LPs
$3500*45 RDMs/$=157,500 RDMs
Use your preferred valuation for the RDMs, but 150k RDMs is a lot of flights to Florida...or it can be a well-timed TCON/TATL flight in three-class F.